diff --git a/api/connection.go b/api/connection.go
index 529777d6c..0d5caffe0 100644
--- a/api/connection.go
+++ b/api/connection.go
@@ -33,4 +33,7 @@ type Connection interface {
 	GetAll(bucketName string, obj interface{}, append func(o interface{}) (interface{}, error)) error
 	GetAllWithJsoniter(bucketName string, obj interface{}, append func(o interface{}) (interface{}, error)) error
 	ConvertToKey(v int) []byte
+
+	BackupMetadata() (map[string]interface{}, error)
+	RestoreMetadata(s map[string]interface{}) error
 }
diff --git a/api/database/boltdb/db.go b/api/database/boltdb/db.go
index 8ffe14ba5..e80b86339 100644
--- a/api/database/boltdb/db.go
+++ b/api/database/boltdb/db.go
@@ -376,3 +376,40 @@ func (connection *DbConnection) GetAllWithJsoniter(bucketName string, obj interf
 	})
 	return err
 }
+
+func (connection *DbConnection) BackupMetadata() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	buckets := map[string]interface{}{}
+
+	err := connection.View(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
+		err := tx.ForEach(func(name []byte, bucket *bolt.Bucket) error {
+			bucketName := string(name)
+			bucket = tx.Bucket([]byte(bucketName))
+			seqId := bucket.Sequence()
+			buckets[bucketName] = int(seqId)
+			return nil
+		})
+
+		return err
+	})
+
+	return buckets, err
+}
+
+func (connection *DbConnection) RestoreMetadata(s map[string]interface{}) error {
+	var err error
+
+	for bucketName, v := range s {
+		id, ok := v.(float64) // JSON ints are unmarshalled to interface as float64. See: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Decoder.Decode
+		if !ok {
+			logrus.Errorf("Failed to restore metadata to bucket %s, skipped", bucketName)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		err = connection.Batch(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
+			bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(bucketName))
+			return bucket.SetSequence(uint64(id))
+		})
+	}
+
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/api/dataservices/fdoprofile/fdoprofile.go b/api/dataservices/fdoprofile/fdoprofile.go
index d8f57aea9..4cb25e929 100644
--- a/api/dataservices/fdoprofile/fdoprofile.go
+++ b/api/dataservices/fdoprofile/fdoprofile.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package fdoprofile
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+
 	portainer "github.com/portainer/portainer/api"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
diff --git a/api/datastore/services.go b/api/datastore/services.go
index 5c0914dab..26da1ef19 100644
--- a/api/datastore/services.go
+++ b/api/datastore/services.go
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ type storeExport struct {
 	User               []portainer.User               `json:"users,omitempty"`
 	Version            map[string]string              `json:"version,omitempty"`
 	Webhook            []portainer.Webhook            `json:"webhooks,omitempty"`
+	Metadata           map[string]interface{}         `json:"metadata,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (store *Store) Export(filename string) (err error) {
@@ -561,6 +562,11 @@ func (store *Store) Export(filename string) (err error) {
 		"INSTANCE_ID": instance,
 	}
 
+	backup.Metadata, err = store.connection.BackupMetadata()
+	if err != nil {
+		logrus.WithError(err).Errorf("Exporting Metadata")
+	}
+
 	b, err := json.MarshalIndent(backup, "", "  ")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -569,6 +575,7 @@ func (store *Store) Export(filename string) (err error) {
 }
 
 func (store *Store) Import(filename string) (err error) {
+
 	backup := storeExport{}
 
 	s, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
@@ -669,5 +676,5 @@ func (store *Store) Import(filename string) (err error) {
 		store.Webhook().UpdateWebhook(v.ID, &v)
 	}
 
-	return nil
+	return store.connection.RestoreMetadata(backup.Metadata)
 }